LANCASTER (AP) – Police in a city outside Dallas have fatally shot a man they say struck and dragged an officer with a vehicle. Lancaster Police allege they were conducting a traffic stop Sunday night when the driver they made contact with reversed his vehicle and drove toward officers. Police say those officers moved out of the way, but the driver then accelerated, striking and dragging another officer. The dragged officer shot the driver as he attempted to flee. Police say the driver lost control, hit a pole and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officer was injured but is now in stable condition. Police won’t release the identities of the officer or the driver. The Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers are assisting in the investigation.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi is sending five firefighters to Texas to help the Lone Star State put out wildfires. The Mississippi Forestry Commission says the group will arrive Tuesday in Merkel, Texas, just west of Abilene. The team is bringing two bulldozers that they use to create fire breaks along the edge of a wildfire. State Forester Charlie Morgan says the Mississippi personnel are expected to stay in Texas for about two weeks. Texas officials reported Sunday that 111 wildfires had burned nearly 25,000 acres across the state in the previous week. State officials reported 19 active wildfires on Monday, with the largest fires concentrated in the state’s panhandle.

HOUSTON (AP) – A 66-year-old Texas man on death row for the icepick slaying of a 20-year-old woman in Houston in 1979 has been set for execution. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says a judge has signed an order setting Danny Bible for lethal injection June 27 in Huntsville. Bible faces execution for killing Inez Deaton. Evidence showed she went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and later was found stabbed 11 times, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou. Her killing went unsolved for nearly two decades until his arrest in Fort Myers, Florida, for a Louisiana rape. He told authorities about killing Deaton in Houston and a woman and her baby west of Fort Worth in North Texas. Records show he’s confessed to four killings.

AUSTIN (AP) – Authorities are urging the public to provide surveillance video that could assist in the investigation into the string of bombings in Austin. During a news conference Monday, police Chief Brian Manley asked homeowners and others to forward video to investigators that might offer insight into the bombing Sunday night or three earlier this month. The latest explosion injured two men in their 20s who were riding or walking their bicycles through a neighborhood in southwestern Austin. The earlier blasts killed two people and injured two others and happened in other parts of the city. Authorities say the device that detonated Sunday featured a tripwire and was left near a road, while the prior bombings involved packages left on people’s doorsteps.